A new White House meme depicting President Donald Trump crossing snow-covered ice in what's supposed to be Greenland"alongside a penguin holding an American flag -- has sparked a wave of reaction on social media Friday night.
Trump, 79, began his posting spree by claiming he had helped to save TikTok by announcing the Chinese social media company would now operate in the U.S. under a majority American-owned joint venture.
Settler violence has forced over 100 people out of a Palestinian Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank in recent weeks, rights groups say. The pattern of harassment is also being repeated elsewhere.
A federal judge has ordered the immediate release of a Mexican man from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Minnesota after he suffered "life-threatening" head injuries after his arrest. A man identified in court documents as Alberto C.M., who entered the country legally on a temporary worker visa in 2022, was hospitalized with skull fractures and brain hemorrhages shortly after his arrest in St. Paul during Donald Trump's surge of immigration enforcement officers in the state. The cause of his injuries is still unknown. According to the lawsuit, officers told hospital staff that he was "laying down in handcuffs when he attempted to flee, and then, for unknown reasons, purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall." ICE has "largely refused to provide information" about what happened, except to say that he "he got his s*** rocked," according to the judge.
A lot of us are simply pining for that day when Donald Trump will simply say, "I've had enough." And walk away to never bother us again.
Unfortunately, Trump is not going to give up being the center of attention in every single major event in the world. His ego simply demands that that continue.
However, we will have a brief reprieve on Super Bowl Sunday. Read more
Peggy Flanagan, the progressive pick in the race for Minnesota senator, says the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is beyond fixing. Her opponent in the Democratic primary, centrist Angie Craig, isn't so sure. "We need a system to enforce immigration laws in this country, but ICE has completely lost the trust of the American people, and they continue to act in ways that are illegal and unconstitutional," Flanagan, the state's lieutenant governor, said in an interview. "We need to completely overhaul this agency and start over." Craig, a Minnesota congresswoman who represents a swing district, said she's opposed to Trump's "version of ICE," but warned that Democrats risk going too far in their response and could alienate independent voters
There's been a lot of speculation about whether Rcade still runs this site and only checks in every few months, or if he's sold it to someone else, possibly even someone linked to the government. What do you all think?
Fuck this shit. Read more
Rational self-interest motivates autocratic regimes to employ idiots. Read more
The video speaks for itself. I will leave it at that.
The Who's live sound in the late 1960s may have sounded metallic, but their studio work was definitely more comparable to that of emerging prog-rock artists.
In 1969, many professionals and music fans began to compare The Who to Robert Fripp's formative band, King Crimson.
Like The Who, King Crimson valued complex composition and evocative themes and also had a huge influence on the heavy metal wave, especially with the enduring classic '21st Century Schizoid Man'. Read more
According to the President the Civil Rights Movement - that modest attempt to stop lynching, segregation, and legally enforced white supremacy - was actually very hard on white people. Apparently the real victims of Jim Crow were the people doing Jim Crow. Read more
But Newsom has a problem: He has been a California politician for decades, and has held the state's governorship since 2019. During his tenure, the state has been a laboratory for some of the Democratic Party's most politically fraught policies and instincts, which has left it less affordable and more culturally radical than it used to be. His record not only raises pressing questions about how effectively he could govern as president; it also provides opponents an endless buffet of vulnerabilities across social and economic issues. Read more
Democrats have claimed that Ramos was "kidnapped" as his father was being detained in Minneapolis. Columbia Heights school district superintendent Zena Stenvik said Ramos was "used as bait." Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., as well as other Democrats, shared an image of a 5-year-old boy online and claimed he was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents while coming home from pre-school, DHS officials said officers were approaching Conejo Arias when he ran and left his son. Read more
A former school superintendent in Des Moines, Iowa, entered a guilty plea at a court hearing on Thursday, months after he was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for staying in the country illegally. Ian Roberts pleaded guilty to falsely claiming U.S. citizenship for employment and being an illegal immigrant in possession of firearms.
57 HOUSE REPUBLICANS JOIN DEMOCRATS TO KEEP FEDERAL AUTHORITY TO SHUT OFF YOUR CAR Lawmakers failed to remove a mandate requiring automakers to install remote "kill switches" in new vehicles, giving the government the ability to disable cars at will.
